The market for initial public offerings continued to accelerate in the third quarter as 26 venture-backed companies started trading on the public markets, more than double the totals for the… Read More
This IPO could be really yummy? Potbelly Sandwich Shop, a Chicago restaurant chain founded in 1977, has filed to raise up to $75 million in a public offering. The company… Read More
Things appear to be humming in the venture capital world. Returns are improving (though in many instances they are still behind the public markets). IPOs, one the big ways that… Read More
Could this be another example of a startup that got away? Fate Therapeutics, which started in Seattle six years ago with backing from Arch Venture Partners and others, has filed… Read More
Frazier Technology Ventures announced four years ago that it would no longer make new investments, and initiate the slow process of winding down operations. But the Seattle VC firm still… Read More
When Zillow went public at $20 per share two years ago, some doubters believed that the online real estate company would get hammered in the public markets. Too small. Too… Read More
It was a tough first day on the stock market for Seattle’s NanoString Technologies, with shares falling 19.4 percent on Wednesday as the stock closed at $8.06. The 138-person company, a maker of… Read More
Champagne corks were popping this morning at Tableau Software offices as the Seattle-based company celebrated the biggest tech IPO so far this year. And I am sure the bars in… Read More
Seven years ago in small office space in the Fremont neighborhood, Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot boldly told me that his 25-person enterprise software company would be the next billion… Read More
It doesn’t get much better than this for a group of entrepreneurs. Tableau Software made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, with CEO Christian Chabot ringing… Read More
Tableau Software is starting on the New York Stock Exchange today with a bang. After pricing its initial public offering Thursday night at $31, the stock took off in early-morning… Read More
Tableau Software is expected to go public tonight on the New York Stock Exchange, a significant milestone for the 10-year-old maker of data visualization products. Demand appears to be very… Read More
Tableau is inching closer to becoming a publicly-traded company, with the Seattle maker of data visualization software expected to begin trading on Friday. But investors who want a piece of… Read More
Tableau Software is expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange this Friday under the ticker symbol “DATA,” marking the first Seattle tech company to go public since… Read More
Tableau Software, the fast-growing 10-year-old Seattle company which helps businesses and organization make better sense of their data, has set terms for its upcoming initial public offering, telling investors that… Read More
Tableau Software’s revenue grew at a rapid clip during the first quarter, but the Seattle maker of data visualization products also swung to a net loss, according to an updated… Read More
Valuations at startup companies continue to increase, even though venture capitalists aren’t cashing out on deals as frequently as they’d like. According to a new report out this week from… Read More
Good things come to those who wait, especially if those who wait have a big audacious mission that they are trying to tackle. Just ask Tableau Software co-founders Christian Chabot,… Read More
Tableau Software, the Seattle maker of data visualization products, has filed to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering. Founded ten years ago as a research project… Read More
It’s a tough time to take your company public. Just eight venture-backed companies completed IPOs during the first quarter of the year, on par with the previous quarter and down… Read More
Forty nine venture-backed companies completed initial public offerings during 2012, a slight decline over 2011 when 51 companies made the plunge. Nonetheless, the amount of money raised through the offerings… Read More
INRIX is driving toward an initial public offering, and today the Kirkland-based provider of traffic information analysis hired a new chief financial officer to help guide the way. The spin-out… Read More
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is making headlines today for comments he made at a tech conference hosted by The New York Times in which he said that some technology stocks… Read More
F5 Networks CEO John McAdam has joined the board of Tableau Software, the fast-growing Seattle data visualization company. The appointment — the third to Tableau’s board this year — may… Read More
It’s shaping up to be an average year for initial public offerings, with about 125 companies listing shares to date. But who are the up-and-comers in the technology industry that… Read More
Redfin has watched some of its peers take on Wall Street, with Trulia and Zillow both going public in the past 20 months. So, is the Seattle online real estate… Read More
The initial public offerings of online real estate upstarts Trulia and Zillow may have grabbed headlines in the past two years. But another big player in real estate just went… Read More
It’s no secret that Bryan Mistele wants to take INRIX public. But the Kirkland provider of traffic data appears to be getting a bit closer, with The Wall Street Journal… Read More
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, was signed into law by President Barack Obama six months ago. The measure was supported by many in… Read More
The red-hot market for initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions slowed during the third quarter, perhaps damaged by Facebook’s debut in the public markets in May. According to a… Read More
